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Bought floor mats at a dollar store and they melted into my car carpet
Last summer I grabbed these cheap rubber floor mats from a dollar store in Phoenix for $5. Figured they'd be fine for my old Corolla. Well after a few weeks of 110 degree heat, they basically turned into goo and stuck to the carpet underneath. Spent an afternoon scraping black tar-like residue off with a putty knife and some goo gone. Had to rent a steam cleaner from the grocery store to get the rest out. So that $5 'savings' ended up costing me $40 and 5 hours of my life. Anyone else had bargain car accessories backfire like that?
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finleym4315h agoTop Commenter
Yup that Phoenix heat exposes everything cheap. @the_hayden your Tucson dash story is exactly what I'm talking about. I've noticed a pattern across all kinds of products now, not just car stuff. Dollar store anything that's supposed to hold up to real life conditions usually fails hard. It's like they only test their stuff in a 70 degree room and hope nobody actually uses it in the real world. After enough of these lessons you learn that saving a few bucks on something that touches your car or your body is almost always a trap.
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the_hayden5d ago
Ngl this reminds me of the time I used a cheap phone mount that melted into my dashboard in Tucson.
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